Your Tweets Cannot Be Copyright Protected
As messages sent via Twitter cannot be longer than 140 characters, they cannot be copyrighted. However original, witty, or profound they may be, nothing more than good manners protects your original expression of authorship. If you wish to let other people quote or use your Tweets, you need not “license” them; indeed, technically, you cannot license them, since they are in the public domain the instant you publish them.
Jeffrey Zelman, You Cannot Copyright a Tweet
In case you were wondering, yes, this is an issue.
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